These summer movies broke bank, audiences' spirits

Maybe you got pulled in by the "everyone else is seeing it" factor. Perhaps the bank-breaking ad budget wore you down. Maybe the production costs were so wow-worthy they had to be seen on the big screen.

Or, hey, maybe we can chalk it up to a good ol' guilty pleasure.

Whatever the excuse, everybody's been roped in to seeing a bad blockbuster at one time or another. You know, the kind of movie that when you look back and all the hoopla is gone, you realize that what you spent good money on was just a horrible waste of time. You and a million other suckers.

How does Hollywood continue to garner success from such nonsense? Ask a sociologist; we're just here to let you know which ones they are. Here are the five worst awesomely-successful movies ever ...